Selected Works
Klaproth's bibliography extends to more than 300 published items.
His great work Asia polyglotta (Paris, 1823 and 1831, with Sprachatlas) not only served as a résumé of all that was known on the subject, but formed a new departure for the classification of the Eastern languages, more especially those of the Russian Empire. To a great extent, however, his work is now superseded.
The Itinerary of a Chinese Traveller (1821), a series of documents in the military archives of St. Petersburg purporting to be the travels of George Ludwig von, and a similar series obtained from him in the London foreign office, are all regarded as spurious.
Klaproth's other works include:
- Reise in den Kaukasus und Georgien in den Jahren 1807 und 1808 (Halle, 1812–1814; French translation, Paris, 1823)
- Geographisch-historische Beschreibung des ostlichen Kaukasus (Weimar, 1814)
- Tableaux historiques de l'Asie (Paris, 1826)
- Memoires relatifs a l'Asie (Paris, 1824–1828)
- Tableau historique, geographique, ethnographique et politique de Caucase (Paris, 1827)
- Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue georgienne (Paris, 1827)
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